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Arnav Jhala

Arnav Jhala is an Associate Professor of Computational Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research interests lie at the intersection of artificial intelligence and digital media, particularly in the areas of computer games, cinematic communication, and narrative discourse. Arnav has developed computational models of film idioms and algorithms for automatically generating cinematic discourse. He heads the Computational Cinematics Studio at UC Santa Cruz. Arnav came to Santa Cruz from IT University of Copenhagen, where he was an assistant professor in the Center for Computer Games Research. He has interned at University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies where he was part of the Leaders project, applying Hollywood storytelling techniques to the design of story-based training applications with branching storylines. He also spent a summer working on the America's Army: Adaptive Thinking and Leadership game at Virtual Heroes, Inc., a leading serious games developer. Prior to graduate school, he spent a year at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in the Space Applications Center working on his undergraduate senior project. Arnav holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the North Carolina State University (2004, 2009). He received his B.Eng. in Computer Engineering from Gujarat University (2001).

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At UC Santa Cruz, researchers and students have been developing the future of games since 2006, when the Jack Baskin School of Engineering started the first undergraduate game major in the University of California system. A leader in game research, UC Santa Cruz also hosts two graduate programs with an emphasis on games — the Digital Arts and New Media M.F.A. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science with a games focus.